This review is from: American Fashion Menswear (Hardcover)

You know not to judge a book by its cover, right? – Well, between the cover and the “Look Inside” pictures that Amazon provided, I thought this book looked promising. I assumed that it would provide a pictorial history of the development of men’s fashion in America. I suppose it did, but it used large numbers of, what I would consider to be far out pictures of simply stupid looks. Honestly, pictures of Devo and Dennis Rodman??? Guys in orange and Windex blue suits – why? Pictures of some dude named Patrick McDonald looking like Phyllis Diller (but with more make-up) – what does this have to do with real fashion (i.e., what men actually wear). I would estimate about 1/3 of the pictures to be interesting/decent. I have to consider whether I’ll squirrel this away somewhere in my library or simply sell it on Amazon as a used book. I would be embarrassed to have this as a coffee table book for fear someone would actually open it and think this book somehow reflected my taste.
A waste of time and money. It’s more a pictorial essay of modern sartorial vulgarism, bad AND stupid taste, and fashion outlandishness than of the development and changes in men’s fashion. Could have been so much better – see Farid Chenoune’s book “A History of Men’s Fashion” in lieu of this book